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To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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On 2016-03-08 08:07, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 8:00 AM,  <rennes@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> 
>> First i remove evince applicattion:
>> 
>> $ guix package -r evince
>> nothing to be done
> 
> Yes, because evince is *not* in your user profile.
> 
>> Later i type the command 'evince', and the command still exists:
>> 
>> $ evince
>> evince              evince-previewer    evince-thumbnailer
>> $ evince
> 
> Yes, because evince is in the *system profile*, which is distinct from
> your user profile.  Remove the GNOME package and reconfigure.  If you
> just want to remove evince, then you'll want to create a variant of
> the GNOME package and reconfigure with that instead.
> 
> - Dave


Interesting, Thanks